How We're Creating "Terminator Vision" in Your Future Contact Lenses
Terminator Vision "We made a lens that displays a single pixel that can be turned on and off wirelessly. An integrated circuit stores the energy, and a light-emitting diode shoots light toward the eye, but the optics are tricky. You can't focus on something that's that close. To correct this, we put a series of tiny lenses between the LED and the eye-imagine holding your finger too close to your eye so it's blurry; you could bring it into focus by putting a magnifying glass between your eye and your finger. So far, our display has only one pixel. But someday you could use the lenses to consolidate all the displays you interact with on a daily basis-your clock, computer, television and phone-into one personal display in your eye. In the distant future, your contact lenses could augment your reality. If you were in a bare hallway, the computer in...